Recovery zones for gyms and clubs

Hygiene is the design

Warm ambient accelerates everything that grows in water. Circulation, cartridge filtration and an ozone or UV stage are mandatory, and a rinse shower at the entry point turns a weekly water change into a monthly one.

A visible cleaning schedule with a name against it does more for water quality than any single piece of equipment we could sell you.

Throughput and supply

Two to four minutes in the water plus changeover gives ten to fifteen people per tub per hour. Size on your busiest hour rather than your membership list, and expect to need one more position than you first imagined.

Then put the whole zone on circuits the changeover feeds. A club whose ice baths are warm every time the grid drops has an ice bath nobody trusts, and members notice within a fortnight.

Floor and slab

Falls to a channel drain, a non-slip surface that survives chlorine, and a towel point that keeps wet feet off the gym floor. A 900-litre tub is close to a tonne before anyone gets in, so the slab gets checked before we quote — and in a first-floor gym, which many Lagos clubs are, that check is not optional.

In short

• Circulation, filtration and ozone or UV are mandatory in this climate
• Rinse shower at entry turns a weekly water change into a monthly one
• 10–15 people per tub per hour at peak
• Whole zone on the essential board, and the slab checked before quoting